Coolamon St Helena, New South Wales, Australia
By azucar on 05-Jul-06. Waypoint GCX06E

Too damp to write on this log.

There has been some serious accidents and near misses on the corner of Coolamon Rd and the Pacific Highway where the access to this cache is so in the interests of safety I am retiring it, apologies.....

What a wonderful trip this has been, with my geobrother MrGrubstake. TFTF SL Moshima from Orem, Utah, USA

Hmmmm.... found it - log still very wet but did sign it. Did not show as being disabled on my GPS - but was a fairly old download. Great view! Now we are home and logging all our great cache finds!

My sister (Moshima – Utah USA) and I (MrGrubstake – Montana USA) flew to Sydney for three days, then took the “Volendam” cruise ship around New Zealand for two weeks (we found at least one geocache in each of seven ports of call) and back to Sydney. We then rented a caravan for two weeks wandering up the eastern coast enjoying a new country to us and finding many geocaches along the way. We quickly grew to love both countries! Thanks go to all the local geocachers who placed caches to make the trip even more wonderful.

What a great view. The log is still a bit damp and it seems too large for the container but the cache is still in-situ. TFTC

Down for maintenance, back soon....

The container is soaked, logs are falling apart and really needs replacing with a more water-proof container. The spot is great but the logs really need replacing as everything is soaked and disintegrating.

Today i was here with my Bicycle.
Nice localization by this nice weather.
This cache is my 800 cache!!!!!
TFTC!
#800

Found with geodad Braelair & geobro FireboltCal on our Sydney-Townsville drive. Great location, the views are terrific. Log is soaked and falling apart.

Dipped the trackables travelling north.

TFTC ... TNLN ... SL

Most excellent views. Found with FireboltCal and BurgerGirl.

Logs were soaking to the point of disintegration, needs urgent maintenance. Nice hide all the same. Will upload some photos soon.

TFTC ... TNLN ... SL

Excellent Find on the way to towns ville. very easy, but good all the same. Found with Burgergirl and Braelair. The log is very wet and sodden really needs replacement and water protection.

We have driven past this lookout many times on days when the view is spectacular. Today was not one of those days!. The rain was horizontal, the visibility was down to 100 metres and the gale force wind blew our umbrella inside out. Luckily it was a quick find then back into the warm dry car. TFTC azucar.

Undercover Duo

Great spot! Watched some gliding action and remote control plane flying, as well as taking in the magnificent view! Thanks!

What an amazing view of cape Byron. Easy find. Lots of muggles though ye old private phone call a little away made it easy. Quick stop on way to Kingscliff for Xmas. TFTC. SAC.

[This entry was edited by Pendlebury on Friday, December 25, 2009 at 11:22:25 AM.]

Enjoyed the view like so many times before, but with a nice bonus today!! Have been there around 12 am. Not too bad with Muggles today... TFTC

2nd fr today. TFTC

nice easy find. beautiful view. we've been past this lookout sooo many times and just havent had a reason to stop.

Where is the picnic table?

Found today at 4:40pm. Certainly is a wonderful spot here. Such great views. Found the cache and all is well except that fortunately someone has added an extra piece of paper but that is filling up fast too. So this cache could do with a visit. The owner could remove the old log and put new ones in. We signed with difficulty, fighting to stay upright against a very fierce wind this afternoon. Wind surfers delight. Thanks for bringing us here azucar. SL.TFTC.

A must stop on the highway north or south bound. Great views and nice spot for a cache. Thanks for bringing me here, driven past a lot and never spotted before! #10/20 for the day. Half way!

Rated: for Overall Experience

Found: Nice view and very windy up here today.

Found at 10:45.

Absolutely spectacular views from here - I actually wish the cache was bigger because I have a couple of GC's that I brought back from NZ and Japan that would have loved to have been left there for a while...

Anyway, a quick find during breaks in the surprisingly frequent traffic. Muggles kept stopping at the carpark, but a small truck with a sleeping driver shielded me.

Thanks azucar

TFTC TNLN SL

Fantastic view.

TFTC

What a view

Found at 9.55am GAFF1. A bit tricky to stop here with the van especially as we were heading south - but it was worth it for the view to see where we were the day before.
Thanks azucar.

signed log and watched some guys flying toy gliders.
great view but very windy

found it while watching the gliders soar over the cliff. TFTC and bringing us to this spot to watch the gliders .SL

What a great view to the east. Found this one near sunset, a great spot. TFTC.

great little cache nice spot SL TFTC

[Found with bristracker. This was a lovely place. I particularly liked the cows on the property opposite the cache.] I thought the use of fake cow poo was a good covering for the hide.

Quite windy this morning at 0840. Found it on my way to Kingscliff for an SES training course. TFTC.

Good little cache to find on a run home from Maclean. Was busy looking out to sea, turned round to find golden sun setting behind cattle over road from cache. Ran for camera, but within seconds smoke haze from the fires further south had turned sun red and after that it was impossible to pick up in photos. Lovely scene, people were stopping and grabbing their cameras. TFTC.

Loved this one! After navigating our way here from Lismore, the GPS failed to tell us that we had arrived, I went sailing around the corner onto the wrong road completely unaware that we had passed it as I was saying " what a beaut place for a cacahe, why hasnt anyone placed one here?"
Eventually we stumbled across the cache down the road "Crystal Clear" & then came back to see this cache magically appear on the GPS!
Quick find at dusk, asked a local why the dust storm was still around when it was coming from the sea? She replied that it was not dust but smoke from some bushfires in Queensland! thought it smelled like smoke.

Found 14:55 the views would have been great except for the sea spray from the strong winds today. TNLN thanks.

Spectacular views across the bay. Thanks.

Found this one on our way up to the Sunshine Coast for a week of caching. The weather wasn't kind to the view. It was rainy so we couldn't see too far. Found the cache fairly easily. The log is very mouldy and should be replaced. Would love to come back when they are hang gliding from here. TNLNSL TFTC

On way to crystal castle..
lovely view here.
TFTC

yeah it was cool!! lol tnln tftc

Well the views at this cache are truly magnificent.

We *recommend* this cache to everybody looking for a fantastic family photo.

This place was a great place to stop.

Thanks azucar for the fantastic view and great cache.

Score 4/4 we are even stevens....

MADSTARS
Nelson Bay 2315

At first I thought there were other cachers here but they were just here to take in the views. Nice place to visit. TFTC

Called by on a drive around Byron. Found the cache, signed the log, took in the views........... TFTC

At first I thought there were other cachers here but they were just here to take in the views. Nice place to visit. TFTC

A nice roadside cache, TFTC.

GawnFishin
Quebec, Canada

It was wet and windy as I jumped out of the car to find the cache, I was glad of a nice quick find as I was being blown away, I have a friend who would love this spot as he is in to paragliding, it was his research into gps for that, that lead me into geocacing. Thanks azucar for the cache.

I remember stopping at this lookout when I first drove through this area about 25 years ago. At the time I thought I had found paradise - views to Byron and the coast North are still paradisical (is that a word??). Anyhow, I found the cache, signed log and replaced it just in time as another car parked near GZ.

Found by Grego72 @ 16:37hrs

Gotcha ! Used the tempory log paper. TFTC

Found at 4.40pm. Great views with the late afternoon sun. Log was quite damp. Maybe needs some maintenance. TFTC

Quick find on our way home from Yamba, a beautiful view. TFTC.

Thankyou for bringing us to this lookout, I would normally watch the white lines as I travel around, however this time the world was brought to my attention, cheers.

I put in a temporary log paper with the old log as it was a little fragile. The old one can still be written on though.

TFTC

Nice easy find for our last one of the day on the way home. Fiona got bitten on the arm by a bug tho.
TNSL
Ben and Fiona

This one brings back lots of memories as I grew up in Bangalow and this was a regular stopping point for our family to check out conditions before heading off to the beach. At that time it was only a lookout with no picnic tables and very little parking but still a great area.

Second visit to this cache. stopped by on the way to the gold coast the week before but some kind of sales rep was parked right near by and wouldn't leave. This visit nobody but us. Beautiful view
Log a bit damp

Great View Good Spot to just sit in grass and admire the View TFTC-azucar

Easy find after intimidating the tourists hanging around GZ . They weren't on the main road before we had the cache. TN/LN/SL. Great spot to stop and look at the view. Unfortunately, it was a bit hazy so no photos .

Found on the great Top Gear tour with Geo-uncle Lat & Long Junkie, love the view. Fantastic spot to stop at, TFTC

The view from here is something I can never get enough of. I grew up in Byron so this spot is special to me. Easy find despite muggles about.

TFTC

Lanceair

log was rather wet -dried it out best we could for our short but wonderful stay.
TFTC
TNLN

FOUND IT AS CASEYLEE86 AND 80SERIES1990

Found this cache on our way home from Coffs Harbour. Good spot to stretch the legs.

fantastic views with a great breeze. a great place to go on a hot summer's day!!

fantastic views and a great place for a picnic on a hot summer's day!!

Absolutely Breath Taking views, It was a nice warm sunny day with cool breeze. TFTC

Enjoyed the views & cool breeze while waiting for muggles to go. I really love this place. TFTC

Good spot - its great to have highway cahes to break up the trips. Easy find TFTC

Stopped for a stretch on the way home from Christmas holidays. Made a dash between muggles to retrieve the cache and then had to wait and make another dash to replace it. Glad the view made the wait worthwhile. TFTC

A quick dash and log and our last cache of the evening on our way to Surfers for the night. Cheers Gav [3324]

Found with the kiwi team on our great Australian caching tour.
Gave some campervan persons a fright at night, mmm... didn't look like a motorcamp.
TFTC

found this one with tofska red Iguana Moneydork and ADV

Team GPS.org.nz Cache Raid: Found late on the way into Surfers. Startled a campervan parked for the night. T4TC, M@

Visited here after dark. TFTC

More caches with views like this one please.!!!

This was a great spot to stop and the views very fantastic. The cache was quickly found and then it was back, through everyone else, to check out more of the views.

Thanks for the cache and the chance to stop.

Cheers,

I had to travel from Brisbane to Lismore for some work....
... so why not grab a cache or two while I'm down here !!

Wow, great views to the coast Hmmm, a hang gliding launch pad, I used to dabble in the sport.....

Found this on the way to Mt Warning. Nice spot Great lookout. Driven past many times but never stopped before.
SL
TFTC

Found this one as were driving from Coffs Harbour to Brisbane. It worked out great as one of the kids wanted to stop and take photos of the spectacular view and lo and behold we found there was a cache there too. Bonus!!

#420 - Today was very hazy so there was little view, but I know from previous visits what a good view it can be. Thanks for the cache

a very rare event for me - finding a cache which others have failed to find - usually it is the other way around!

found quickly on a very wet Tuesday - cache is damp (which was pretty good, given the conditions and past few days) could only just log it. Next time I head through will try to drop off some dessicant.

DNF 8:45am. Was on the spot but no luck. Signs on previous searchers. Try again next time coming through.

Found while on a weeks holiday at Brunswick Heads.
Ant24 and I tracked this one down on our way down to Ballina to round up a few caches down there.
Cache found pretty quickly, at 1:00pm.
TFTC

Found while on a weeks holiday at Brunswick Heads.

Mrs Ant and I tracked this one down on our way down to Ballina to round up a few caches down there.

Cache found pretty quickly, at 1:00pm.

TFTC

no cache for us. looked everywhere we could think of in the sea of grass...

Great views from up here.
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

great spot to stop and take in the view, had to wait awhile for some muggles to more off before reteiving the cache, then on my way. TFTC

So windy today the muggles had thinned out. Or possibly blew away?

TFTC

1530hrs. Thank goodness we found this one. Cold but great views as always. TFTCSL

Found with Chip as she took me on a trip down memory lane in her home town.

Cheers

Found with Hoojar.
I grew up in the area so i love the view and all that it means for me.
Cheers.

Found at 9:20. First find of our Byron Bay to Gold Coast holiday. A nice view, and a good spot to get our bearings.
Log was a little damp.
Passed through Travel Bug Bell.

Had to drive to Lennox Head and back today, so no real time for geocaching. I grew up in this area, and as we passed here Dad always said it was where they pushed the red cedar logs off to get them down the valley. Don't quote me, but it's called McLeods Shoot I think. Anyway, stopped in the dark on the way home and had an easy find with the torch. TNLN TFTC

The views are great from here of the area. TFTC / TNLN. Greetings from South Africa.

great view

It was raining very heavily so I got into and out of the car three times before I found this cache. Nice hide. Thanks for providing my only cache on a 800k drive from Terrigal to the Gold Coast.

0531 re-logging due to name change

531 Easy find - sit on bank and pretend to look at views. TFTC azucar

incredible windy day. imagine the gliders around here!
Thanks
Acko

Found with JMCz (Texas) & Wagga Wagga (my brother from Las Vegas), TFTC!

The coords were perfect on this cache along with the view. TFTC

Finally got this one, on only my 5000th time (well maybe not that many. Finding the lookout not crawling with people is hard. But with persistece and patience (and a bit of clever sneeking) I finally got it.

Only one other car stopped off at the cache enjoying the view so we adopted the always successful divide tactic whereby mr bloopy walked straight towards the muggles to distract attention away from mrs bloopy while she nabbed the cache. Same tactic after the log was signed proved highly successful.